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Feedback Meet the characters in the real-life, "Rescue at Sea" drama. Explore some relevant events leading up to the collision.


People:
•  Jack Binns
•  Jack Irwin
•  Mary and Eugene Lynch
•  Guglielmo Marconi
•  William J. Mooney
•  Captain Inman Sealby


Events
•  CQD and SOS
•  The First Transatlantic Wireless Signal
•  The First Wireless Distress Signals From Sea
•  Messina Earthquake
•  The Launch of the "Republic"


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